Rajkumar Dhoot
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Profile Photo of Mr. Dhoot
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| MP of Rajya Sabha for Maharashtra | |
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Assumed office 3 April 2014 |
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| Constituency | Maharashtra |
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11 September 1955 Ahmednagar, Maharashtra |
| Political party | Shiv Sena |
| Spouse(s) | Sushma Dhoot |
| Children | Shruti, Namrata, Komal, Akshay |
| Father | Nandlal Madhavlal Dhoot |
| Residence | Aurangabad, Maharashtra and New Delhi, India |
| Profession | Politician, Industrialist |
Rajkumar Dhoot, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) representing the State of Maharashtra, India and Immediate Past-President of the Apex Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry, ASSOCHAM (The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India) is also the Promoter & Co-Owner of the diversified Videocon Group of Companies. He is from the Shiv Sena party. He is a well-known industrialist and was born on 11 September 1955 at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra. His father, the late Shri Nandlal Madhavlal Dhoot, was an Indian Industrialist and the founder of Videocon. His brother, Venugopal Dhoot is the Chairman & Managing Director of Videocon Industries Limited.
Mr. Rajkumar Dhoot was first elected to the Rajya Sabha in April 2002 and served the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, Consultative Committees for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry & the Ministry of Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation. He has been a regular member of the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Finance & Special Invitee of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Communications & IT and for the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. He was a special invitee to the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India). In April 2008, he was re-elected to Rajya Sabha for a second term & had been a Member of the Standing Committee on IT apart from being a Member of the Hindi Salahkar Samiti of the Ministry of Textiles. He has been consecutively re-elected for a third term for the Rajya Sabha this year (2014).
At present, he is a Member of the Standing Committee on Health & Family Welfare. Apart from keenly raising pertinent issues of his home State Maharashtra through Parliamentary Questions, No-Day-Yet Named Motions, amendments on the Motion of Thanks on Presidents’ Address & other means of Parliamentary modes, he has also introduced key Private Members Bills in the Rajya Sabha. To cite some of the subjects raised by Mr. Dhoot for the development of Maharashtra - for the prevention of suicides of farmers of Maharashtra and rest of the Country and for their welfare, for the welfare of pavement dwellers and slum dwellers of Mumbai and rest of the Country and many other issues of public importance. He regularly writes to Union Ministers and Chief Minister of Maharashtra for the redressal of problems of Mumbai and rest of Maharashtra and other issues of public importance & he has succeeded in his endeavors.
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